[AppyPappy]

I’ll take issue with one point.

Because they believe in Latter Day prophets, anything said 150 years ago can be overturned at any time. So instead of telling Jeff what he believes, perhaps you should ask him.

[Jeff Head]

Thy have Appy, and I have replied many times here on FR, and even placed a page on my own site regarding my witrness of faith...but they cannot accept my own witness since itr does not fit with what they say and what they know I must believe, so I am therefore a deceiver, misguided, a liar, purposefully crafting my words to fool others, etc., etc.

It's really, at least IMHO, quite sad...but they have their right to their own slant on things and I do seek God's blessings on each of them, and anyone else for their own witness and faith in Christ Jesus, even if it differs in some points of doctrine from my own. Good to talk to you, hope and trust you and yours are well and I sincerely hope we can turn our nation around, building on 2010 here in 2012 and particularly removing Obama from the White House. God's speed. BZ

[svcw]

I am so glad my God is forever.
I would be so confused if He were changing his mind all the time, wouldn’t know what I was supported to do or how to behave.
So much easier to have a consistent God Almighty, rather than one who is imperfect so that He has to change His mind because He made mistakes before.

[Elsie]

So instead of telling Jeff what he believes, perhaps you should ask him.

What HE believes is irrelevant. What the LDS religious organization has PUBLISHED is not.

[Elsie]

Because they believe in Latter Day prophets, anything said 150 years ago can be overturned at any time.

You have got THAT right!!

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In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet”, for our salvation depends on them.

1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say “Thus Saith the Lord,” to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by men’s reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer.

I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captain—how close do our lives harmonize with the Lord’s anointed—the living Prophet—President of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.

Ezra Taft Benson

(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University)